International Research Funding Alert

June 2022

Title:	International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (CR)
Sponsor:	United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Deadline:	June 27, 2022
Location:	Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMIC)
Amount:	$1,000,000
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339980
Summary:	The International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP), will provide opportunities to eligible U.S. citizens to assist developing countries in establishing school-based agricultural education and youth extension programs under the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. Eligible U.S. citizens must possess at least a bachelor’s degree, and ideally will have agricultural experience, including teaching agricultural skills, and curriculum and/or program development. FAS will consider program proposals from all eligible organizations, including current recipients and new organizations. The IAEFP’s purpose is to connect American agricultural professionals to the demand for experiential, school-based agricultural education in developing countries. The IAEFP, affords United States agriculturalists to develop a global mindset, collaboratively meet the food and fiber needs of the domestic population of eligible countries, and strengthen and enhance trade linkages between eligible countries and the United States agricultural industry.

Title:	US-ASEAN Green Building Innovation Program
Sponsor:	US Department of State
Deadline:	June 28, 2022
Location:	South-East Asia
Amount:	$300,000
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339865
Summary:	The goal of the program is to help train a new generation of Association of South-East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) urban planners, architects, and engineers in the latest techniques, materials and architectural designs to improve the air quality inside and outside of buildings, reduce the full lifecycle carbon footprint of the building and construction sector, and improve building siting and resilience to better adapt to climate impacts. U.S. State Department funding will support an institutional collaboration linking universities in the United States with counterparts in the ASEAN region to work together to advance green building and sustainable urban planning practices in ASEAN member states.

Title:	Annual Program Statement - Public Diplomacy Programs with Chile
Sponsor:	US Department of State
Deadline:	June 30, 2022
Location:	Chile
Amount:	See solicitation for details
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337318
Summary:	PAS Santiago invites proposals for programs that enhance cooperation between the United States and Chile to promote action responding to climate change, at the local and/or national level. Programs could build or strengthen partnerships to address climate and environmental resilience, green economic development, and/or impacts on vulnerable communities, for example. All programs must include a U.S. element, or connection with U.S. expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s. And programs must also feature a multimedia component to share achievements and impacts, inspiring citizen participation in climate action.

Title:	Built Water Storage in South Asia
Sponsor:	Department of State
Deadline:	July 5, 2022
Location:	South Asia
Amount:	$1,280,000
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340132
Summary:	The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out the "Built Water Storage in South Asia" project to build technical and policy capacity to develop and manage built water storage in the region. Climate change is reducing water resources in South and Central Asia, which creates need for more water storage and improved water management. Shrinking glaciers, over-reliance on groundwater, changes in monsoon cycle, and increasing droughts –combined with growing populations and developing economies demanding more water for energy and agriculture–have highlighted water stress, threatening sustainable development and societal. This project will build the technical and policy capacity of governments, water management professionals, civil society organizations, and other relevant actors to address these water resource challenges.

Title:	Logistics support for the Gang Resistance Education And Training (GREAT) in El Salvador
Sponsor:	Department of State
Deadline:	July 5, 2022
Location:	El Salvador
Amount:	$800,000
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340057
Summary:	The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to provide logistics support to the National Civilian Police (PNC) in the implementation of the Gang Resistance Education And Training (GREAT) in El Salvador. The targeted population is youth at risk in El Salvador coursing Elementary and Middle grades plus PNC prevention officers who are certified as GREAT instructors.

Title:	Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): International Foreign Language Education (IFLE): Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) Fellowship Program, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.019A
Sponsor:	Department of Education
Deadline:	July 13, 2022
Location:	Global
Amount:	See Solicitation for Details
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338742
Summary:	The Fulbright-Hays FRA Fellowship Program provides grants to colleges and universities to fund faculty members seeking to improve their area studies and foreign language skills by conducting research abroad. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.

Title:	U.S. Mission to Costa Rica - U.S. Embassy San Jose PD Annual Program Statement
Sponsor:	Department of State
Deadline:	July 15, 2022
Location:	Costa Rica
Amount:	See Solicitation for Details
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337748
Summary:	PD San Jose invites proposals for programs that strengthen people-to-people ties between the U.S. and Costa Rica through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an U.S. cultural element, or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives. Activities that may be funded include, but are not limited to: Public-facing programs that include U.S. subject matter experts conducting speaking tours/public talks, roundtable discussions, workshops, etc; Academic and professional lectures and seminars; Skills building and education programs that help young people learn technology-based job skills; Professional and academic exchanges and programs; Artistic and cultural workshops, joint performances, and exhibitions; Development of initiatives aimed at maintaining contacts with alumni of our exchange programs.

Title:	U.S. Embassy Guatemala - PAS Annual Program Statement
Sponsor:	Department of State
Deadline:	August 26, 2022
Location:	Guatemala
Amount:	See solicitation for details
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339382
Summary:	PAS Guatemala invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural, educational, professional, and/or scientific ties between the United States and Guatemala through cultural, educational, and/or exchange programming that highlights our shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an American cultural or educational element, or connection with American expert(s), organization(s), or institution(s) in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.

Title:	U.S. Embassy KL PAS Annual Program Statement
Sponsor:	Department of State, U.S. Mission to Malaysia
Deadline:	September 19, 2022
Location:	Malaysia
Amount:	$99,000
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336880
Summary:	The The U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program. This is an Annual Program Statement, outlining our funding priorities, the strategic themes we focus on, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding. PAS Kuala Lumpur invites proposals for programs that further U.S. government objectives and promote bilateral cooperation and mutual understanding between the U.S. and Malaysia. All programs must include a substantive American element, such as connections with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will result in increased understanding of U.S. policies and perspectives.

Title:	Higher Education for Leadership, Innovation, and Exchange (HELIX), A New Partnerships Initiative (NPI)
Sponsor:	United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Deadline:	April 2, 2023 (Concept Notes)
Location:	Global
Amount:	See solicitation for details
Website:	https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326056
Summary:	USAID DDI Bureau Center for Education through this Higher Education for Leadership, Innovation, and Exchange (HELIX) Annual Program Statement (APS) aims to improve partner country higher education individual, institutional, and organizational capacity for change by supporting opportunities for partnerships, scholarships, exchanges, fellowships, internships, apprenticeships, work-based learning, research, communities of practice, and other relevant forms of capacity development and change management. The aim of this APS is to support solutions that will create meaningful change at the individual, institutional, and/or system level, with, in connection to, or through higher education, as a country moves forward in its Journey to Self-Reliance. (HELIX) APS is not a Request for Applications (RFA). Rather, the HELIX APS requests Concept Note(s) in response to addenda published under this APS. Based on the submitted Concept Note(s) in response to active addenda under this APS, USAID will determine whether to request a Full Application from an eligible organization. Concept Note(s) and/or Full Application to the APS will not be accepted.